Japanese Preschoolers' Theories about the "Hiragana" System of Writing

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-232

  Kato, Yasuhiko ^a   Ueda, Akiyo ^b   Ozaki, Kyoko ^b   Mukaigawa, Yuko ^b  

^a Chugoku Junior College   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346303065     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-5898(99)80109-0     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Brown, R. (1973). A first language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Ferreiro, E. (1978). What is written in a written sentence? A developmental answer. Journal of Education, 160(4), 25-39.
3. Ferreiro, E., & Teberosky, A. (1982). Literacy before schooling (K. G. Castro, Trans.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (Original work published 1979)
4. Goodman, K. (1993). Phonics phacs. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
5. Hays, W. L. (1973). Statistics for the social sciences (2nd ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
6. Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan (Vol. 7). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983.
7. Manning, M., Manning, G., Long, R., & Kamii, C. (1993). Preschoolers' conjectures about segments of a written sentence. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 8(1), 5-11.
8. Manning, M., Manning, G., Long, R., & Kamii, C. (1995). Development of kindergarteners' ideas about what is written in a written sentence. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 10(1), 29-36.
9. Piaget, J. (1951). The child's conception of the world (J. & A. Tomlinson, Trans.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1926)
10. Senders, V. L. (1958). Measurement and statistics. New York: Oxford University Press.
11. Shibatani, M. (1990). The languages of Japan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
12. Smith, F. (1988). Understanding reading (4th ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. Smith-Morris, M. (Ed.). (1990). The economist book of vital world statistics. New York: Times Books.